Eric Anderson, Adam White

Sport, Theory and Social Problems (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition examines how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play. By introducing students to a research-led perspective on sport, it highlights the operation of power, patriarchy and pain that a hyper-competitive sporting culture promotes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315515793
• Artikelnr.: 48838079

Autorenporträt

Eric Anderson is Professor of Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities at the University of Winchester, UK. He holds four degrees, has published 17 books, over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and is regularly featured in international television, print, and digital media. Professor Anderson is recognized for research excellence by the British Academy of Social Sciences and is a fellow of the International Academy of Sex Research. His work shows a decline in cultural homohysteria and promotes inclusive attitudes toward openly gay, lesbian and bisexual athletes as well as a softening of heterosexual masculinities.

Adam White is a Lecturer at the University of Winchester, UK. In addition to publishing on the social inclusion of sexual minorities in sport, his doctoral research examines the structural and cultural matrix that promotes head trauma. He runs the Sport Collision Injury Collective and is a public-activist for protecting children from sport-induced brain damage.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Why We Value Organized, Competitive Sport 2. Sport's Use in
Teaching Obedience to Authority and Complicity to Abuse 3. Learning to
Accept, Inflict, and Enjoy Violence and Injury 4. Head Games: Brain
Injuries and Youth Sport 5. The Governance of Youth Sport: Rights,
Representation and Consent 6. Sport's Use in the Maintenance of Class 7.
Sport's Use in Stratifying Men 8. Sport's Use in Marginalizing Women 9.
Sport's Use in Subordinating Racial Minorities 10. Sport's Use in
Excluding, Reproducing Stereotypes, and Othering 11. Changing Sport